Carol M. Highsmith Archive photos from the 1980s

Skating at Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York

Sitting room with tapestry at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C

Skaters at Rockefeller Center, New York, New York

Sitting room, Belgian Embassy, Washington, D.C

Sixth-floor window of the Texas School Book Depository

Skyline and train tracks, Chicago, Illinois

Skyline at dusk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Skyline at dusk, dominated by Willis Tower, long known as Sears Tower, Chicago, Illinois

Skyline and lakefront, Chicago, Illinois

Skyline at dusk, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Skyline from Sam Houston Park, Houston, Texas

Skyline at dusk, San Francisco, California

Skyline of Houston, Texas, above Sam Houston Park, the city's oldest

Skyline view of Chicago, Illinois, dominated by Willis Tower, long known as Sears Tower

Skyline of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Skyline view of Boston, Massachusetts

Skyline of Houston, Texas

Skyline view of San Francisco, California, with the Transamerica Pyramid as the focus

Skyline view of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Skyline, dominated by the Space Needle, which appeared in the 1962 Seattle World's Fair, or "Century 21 Exposition." Seattle, Washington

Skyline, Houston, Texas

Skyline, New Orleans, Louisiana Central Business District skyline; seen from Algiers?

Skyline, Boston, Massachusetts

Sligo Creek Bridge, built in 1932 in Takoma Park, Maryland

Slave cemetery in the Georgetown neighborhood, Washington, D.C

Sleigh ride at the Mount Washington Hotel and Resort, Bretton Woods, New Hampshire

Skyline, Denver, Colorado

Skyline, New Orleans, Louisiana

Slatted wooden structure at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia

Sloppy Joe's was Ernest Hemingway's favorite haunt in Key West, Florida

Skyline, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark, Birmingham, Alabama

Small log cabin, Dallas, Texas

Sloss Furnaces, now abandoned, which burned for 90 years during Birmingham, Alabama's days as the Steel City of the south

Slot canyon in Page, Arizona

Slot machine arcade at the Tropicana Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada

SLW cattle ranch barn, Greeley, Colorado

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, on the National Mall, Washington, D.C.

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Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian 14903v

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian 14905v

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Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, on the National Mall, Washington, D.C.

Smithsonian Insitution Castle

Small row houses sit close to the high-rise buildings in Houston, Texas

Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, on the National Mall, Washington, D.C

Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, on the National Mall, Washington, D.C

Smithsonian Institution's Arts and Industries building, Washington, D.C

Sprawling tree in Texas

Smithsonian Insitution "Castle," its first building on the National Mall when the institution was simply called the "National Museum." Washington, D.C

Smithsonian Castle, Washington, D.C

Smith Civil War Memorial, Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Smokey the Bear fire hazard sign along the Appalachian Trail in Maine

Smitty's Jukebox Museum in tiny Pharr in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas

Smokestacks and bridge of a steamboat docked at Jackson Square on the Mississippi River, New Orleans, Louisiana

Snow scene in a park, Woodstock, Vermont

Society Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Society Hill Towers is a three-building condominium development located in the Society Hill neighborhood of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Snake-head medallion at the top of a bannister, National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C

Snow Hill Bridge, built in 1932 over the Pocomoke River on Maryland's Eastern Shore